Fancy Hard Disks

Obtainable in a range of colors across in offer are the My Passport Essential and My Passport Elite range. Western Digital has proclaimed the initiation of the novel 500GB & 400GB capability My Passport Essential & My Passport Elite Portable USB Hard Drives. Analogous to existing proffering (320GB being the flagship until now), new-fangled copies let you store up to half a terabyte of music, videos and additional stuff in the palm of your hand. These USB 2.0 bus influenced hard drives weigh 7 ounces and feature built-in 128-bit encryption. They're also similar in temperament with PlayStation3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 game consoles.

Portable USB Hard Drive for MacBook Air

Because of the fact that the MacBook Air has only 80GB P-ATA 4,200rpm hard disk drive storage capacity, with optional 64GB Solid State Drive, Iomega comes with a great solution for the world’s thinnest laptop, in a ultra-thin and ultra-light form factor measuring just 0.63 inches thick at 7 ounces. It is called the Iomega eGo Helium and is a portable hard drive matching Apple’s MacBook Air from all points of view, starting with the design and ending with its functionality.
In it you can store all your media and carry it with you wherever you go, while to use it you have to connect the external hard drive to the laptop’s USB port.
The 2.5-inch Iomega eGo Helium has 320GB space and comes with the Mozy online backup service starting October.

The company is known for its data protection and security solutions, and by adding this new product to its line it delivers both a portable storage solution and the online possibility via the Mozy service, which allows you to securely store your media online, like 850,000 users and 23,000 business customers do it currently.

The portable device is an anodized aluminum shell looking stylish and elegant, but with string elements for protecting the data. These include Drop Guard formatted with Apple's HFS+ file system and meant to keep the information safe even in case of drops of up to 51 inches height. It powers via your laptop’s USB port and can store up to 1,280,000 photos, 5,920 hours of music, or 480 hours of video.
Iomega delivers the eGo Helium with 2 Mac OS X backup software applications - EMC Retrospect Express for Macintosh 6.1 software and MozyHome online backup software with 2GB free storage or unlimited online storage for $4.95/month.

"Iomega's eGo portable hard drives have garnered tremendous attention
in the beige world of external storage by offering consumers a choice of several different vibrant colors as well as a camouflage print and genuine leather," said Peter Wharton, vice president of marketing, Iomega Corporation. "The eGo Helium extends that strong commitment to delivering style with substance. What makes eGo Helium such an effective piece of industrial design is the way it dresses up a highly functional 320GB hard drive device into a durable and sleek package with plenty of storage
capability, making it an easy-to-use 'eye-catcher' that's small enough to go anywhere."

The portable hard drive comes at a retail price of $149.99

MEMOREX 500GB HDD

Memorex, the award-winning optical media and media accessories developer, that provides the Ultra TravelDrive USB hard drives. Today the company announced the introduction of a new drive to its line, bringing 500GB in an ultra-portable compact device made of a durable material and featuring data backup capabilities. You can store all your media, from music to pictures, movies and documents.


The blue LED light illuminates when the hard drive is plugged in and flashes when you transfer files. It is a useful travel and laptop companion, easy to carry and providing a better backup solution compared to other portable digital storage devices.


This 2.5-inch high-capacity external hard drive is compatible with both USB 1.1 and the high-speed USB 2.0. It is also cross-platform compatible with PCs and Macs, so you won’t need extra power supply or batteries. To perform a quick backup you need to press the dedicated button on the device to launch the synchronization software.


"Memorex's 500 GB Ultra TravelDrive is the latest in the ever expanding series of products designed for today's mobile users and their content driven world," said Keith Schwartz, director, North America sales and marketing, Imation Corp. "The added capacity to the Ultra TravelDrive makes it ideal for frequent travelers, pro-sumers, photographers and graphic artists who regularly create large files and share them on the go."


The Ultra TravelDrive series of portable hard drives are covered with a non-slip double-injected rubberized layer for ergonomy while carried, and come in cool ocean and onyx black finish, sporting 2 interchangeable face plates, which you could use to personalize the compact device as you like.


Available via Imation distributors, the Memorex Ultra TravelDrive 500GB hard drive has a suggested retail price of $299.99, coming with the software and the USB cable.


This model has the highest capacity from the Ultra TravelDrive series and other capacities available are: 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB and 320GB.

WD Elite Portable 320GB Hard Drive

There are quite a large number of Portable Hard Drives available in the market. But most of them does not have a cool outer look that is must for an external drive.

We got an exception here.

Western Digital My Passport Elite 320GB is sleek and compact portable portable hard drive that easily catches many eyes. A luxurious soft-touch finish makes these drives easy to grip, comfortable to hold, and beautiful to show off to your friends. Combine that with mega-capacity that fits in your pocket, plus four powerful features — capacity gauge, automatic backup, sync and encryption, and remote access software — and you’ll understand why we call these little drives Elite.

WD doesn’t provide a software CD with this drive; the software is provided on the drive itself. Therefore, you need to back it up before you start using the drive; however, if something goes wrong, you can still download it from the WD site.

The complete package includes Western Digital My Passport WDML3200, USB cable and a quick start guide. It only needs a USB for power. It weighs only 0.18 kg and has a Serial Bus Transfer Rate of 480Mbits/sec.

Price ranges between $150.00-$199.00 (around 6000 INR)